I see that the Orioles have announced that they will be adding a "game-day ticketing fee" of anywhere from $1-5 on all tickets purchased on the day of the game next year.
I guess I shouldn't pick on just the Orioles here because apparently 10 other Major League teams do this as well.
Thankfully, the Tigers do not do this. As a partial-season ticket holder, I probably only buy tickets at the walk-up window 2-3 times a year and I think these tickets are actually cheaper than a pre-purchased ticket because I believe you avoid the Ticketmaster fee at the ballpark box office.
Why do teams do this? Isn't the walk-up crowd kind of considered "gravy"? "Gravy" in the "we'll take all that we can get" sense. If you could do it, I would probably be inclined to charge less the day of the game so to get every possible person who is remotely interested in the game in a seat; and then the stadium price-gouging on concessions, souvenirs can begin. Frankly, you probably could not get away with charging less on game days because that would cut into your pre-paid sales as everybody would just wait until game day to buy their tickets; but you probably get my thought process here. Why give any disincentive for anybody to come to the game on the spur of the moment?
I am just not getting this one.
Besides, if you don't keep your ticket prices low, how are these guys above going to be able to get into the park?
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Don't charge the fee for orange dudes. Anything else would be racist against Syracuse and Tigers fans.
That might apply if they were born orange and this might be the case with the big guy but if you look, the little guy has white around his eyes and armpit so he was obviously not born that way. He is just a poser so any discrimination laws surely do not apply to him.
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